John Dryden: Trending quotes
John Dryden trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionThe Works of Virgil translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden, Volume II (London, 1709), "Dedication", p. 213.
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
On the Death of a Very Young Gentlemen (1700).
“His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 645. Compare: Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: "A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman"; Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night iv, line 788, "A Christian is the highest style of man".
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 84-85.
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
John Dryden book Religio Laici
Religio Laici (1682), Preface.
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, The Worship of Aesculapius (1700), lines 155–156.
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”
John Dryden The Conquest of Granada
Part 2, Act I, scene ii.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)
“Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 868.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 167–170.
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, lines 239–240.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
The Maiden Queen, Act iii, scene 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the day.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 407–408.
“Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 54.
“Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, line 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Preface to the Fables http://www.bartleby.com/39/25.html <br class="br">Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I, lines 197–199. Compare Knolles, History (under a portrait of Mustapha I): "Greatnesse on Goodnesse loves to slide, not stand,/ And leaves, for Fortune’s ice, Vertue’s ferme land".
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 61–62.